Dow continues to advance sustainable chemistry through new and enhanced products, processes and services.

Dow’s resin design and polymer processing improvements have allowed industrial stretch film to be down-gauged by more than 25 percent in the last decade.

Industrial stretch films are manufactured from high performance polyethylene resins that provide a combination of key properties such as elongation and load holding force. They are used to wrap and contain pallet loads during shipment and storage. Stretch films are also used for specialty wrapping applications, including lumber, paper rolls and agricultural silage.

With a global market size of more than 3 billion pounds, this improvement saves over 1 billion pounds per year of polyethylene from being used to make stretch film, resulting in energy savings equivalent to 293 million gallons of gasoline, or heating and cooling for 643,000 homes for one year.

This is just one example of how the Human Element at Dow is contributing to more sustainable chemistry solutions; for more, please visit http://www.dow.com/commitments/studies/index.htm
 

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